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There was uncertainty earlier about whether Rand would attend, this source clears it up and lists all the participants.

July 24. 2015 11:00AM

Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Rand Paul are in. Donald Trump is out.

A total of 14 candidates will participate in the Voters First Republican Presidential Forum on Monday, Aug. 3, at St. Anselm College. The two-hour forum, intended to highlight the importance of the first-in-the-nation primary, along with the Iowa caucuses and South Carolina’s early primary.

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Spokesmen for Paul and Walker said they are looking forward to the event.

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Candidate Trump bowed out because, an aide said, he was upset with a Union Leader editorial this week that mocked
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During one of his “Telling It Like It Is” town hall events in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the New Jersey Governor and 2016 GOP presidential candidate once again let his unusually strong views on the topic be known, this time with a warning to people who live in states like Colorado and Washington where recreational use of the drug is currently legal.

“If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it,” Christie said at the Salt Hill Pub in Newport, New Hampshire, as first reported by Bloomberg Politics. “As of January 2017, I will enforce the federal laws.”

This is hardly the first time Christie has expressed his strong anti-marijuana views.
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Senator Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the Republican presidential candidate best positioned to defeat Hillary Clinton. By championing both economic and personal liberty, he inspires a conservative coalition more diverse than the group that elected Ronald Reagan.

In recent years, Democrats have implemented unsustainable big government policies and then hidden behind Republicans over expanded social programs that America simply cannot afford. For their part, Republicans failed to stand firm and defend the conservative case for more freedom and less government intrusion in our healthcare and our households. What a waste.

Too many conservatives have diluted core principles of self-reliance and local control in hopes of appealing to a broader audience. Simply put: conservatives have kowtowed to the left. That deference opened the door for the liberal promises of more free stuff that emerged victorious for President Obama in 2012.

With the liberal battle cry of “lean on the government” and no strong counter argument from the right, in the last Presidential election over 90 million disinterested citizens failed to even submit a ballot.

Americans have had it with poll-tested, over-analyzed platitudes about domestic spying, misuse of taxpayer dollars, and massive data security breaches. The problems we face as a nation cannot be addressed by politicians who sugar-coat poisoned policies and hope the public doesn’t catch on.

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. – “Anybody read about the Middle East?” asked Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to a Shriner’s hall packed with war veterans. “They’ve been killing each other for a thousand years and they’ll probably be killing each other for another thousand years. That doesn’t mean we just retreat, and do nothing. That means we need to acknowledge what the Middle East is like before we get involved.”

On Monday, Paul made a brief trip to this veteran-rich coast city to reiterate his subtly non-interventionist foreign policy. He did that at a forum hosted by Concerned Veterans of America, a group funded by the Koch network to mobilize conservatives on VA reform and related issues. Organizers said that it would be up to Paul
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At an anti-abortion rally on Capitol Hill, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called on the Democratic presidential frontrunner to refund any donations from Planned Parenthood.

"Hillary Clinton's hands are stained by accepting this money," said Paul, who says he has been guaranteed a vote to ban any taxpayer funding for the family planning group. (It currently receives funding that is prohibited from being used for abortion.) "She needs to immediately return every red cent she has received from Planned Parenthood employees."

In a statement, Paul cited research from the Washington Free Beacon to back up his five-digit Clinton cash figure. In an interview, Paul said that he was doing exactly what Republicans
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According to media reports, the US and Turkey have agreed to set up "safe zones" inside Syrian territory. This will likely entail the US bombs on Syrian government forces that Americans rejected in 2013.

The recent undercover video showing a Planned Parenthood official negotiating for the sale of the organs of aborted babies has caused a firestorm of outrage. But both political parties will use this scandal for political gain. Ron Paul remembers from Congress the bipartisan deal allowing US funding of abortions worldwide. And if "black lives matter" -- which they do -- why is the holocaust of millions of black abortions not being discussed?

CHARLESTON, S.C. – As Congress races toward its long summer recess, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is confident that he’ll get a vote to bar any taxpayer funds going to Planned Parenthood.

“There’s a nationwide movement that we’ve been leading,” Paul said in an interview, after participating in a town hall with military veterans. “We will probably send a million emails out on this subject. I think by motivating the grassroots, there’s a very good chance we’ll get a vote on this.”

Paul’s confidence came just a day after a special Sunday session of the Senate seemed to put the lid on any wishlist conservative amendment. July has been a most cruel month for that sort of thing, and especially cruel to Paul’s presidential
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Matt Kibbe left his job as head of the influential grassroots conservative organization FreedomWorks to help lead a super PAC designed to boost Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign. But a poor performance by Paul early could spell disaster for his chances of winning the White House — and cost Kibbe his new job.

So Kibbe has focused the Concerned American Voters operation he helps run on Iowa to make sure that does not happen.

"Rand is going to play in a lot of states, but it doesn't matter that much if he doesn't win any of the four first states," Kibbe told the Washington Examiner. "I think Iowa is our, I don't know about our best chance, but it's a great chance. I think Nevada is a great
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was one of the first 2016 presidential contenders to embrace Snapchat, and now he’s becoming one of the first to advertise on the platform.

Paul’s campaign is placing three ads on the social network this weekend as part of a broader digital campaign soliciting ideas for how the libertarian lawmaker can destroy the tax code. The 10-second video spots are cut from a longer video released earlier this week featuring Paul fire, using fire, a woodchipper and a chainsaw to tear up piles of papers, all set to an electric guitar rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner.”

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The ads are targeted at all users in the four early voting states, Iowa, Nevada, South Carolina and New Hampshire, and his campaign hopes they will appeal to the platform’s younger-skewing demographic.

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Harris would not reveal the dollar-amount behind the buy, adding, “The campaign will continue to spend more after we see the ROI. This is new and exciting territory.”

Paul tried to get the floor to stand up and offer an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood and another one to arm servicemen and women on military bases. He intended to offer these measures as amendments to the highway bill that is currently on the Senate floor. Whoever was presiding over the floor refused to recognize Paul to offer his amendments.

Two super PACs supporting Rand Paul’s presidential candidacy together raised about $5 million in the first half of the year.

One of the PACs, America’s Liberty, raised $3.13 million, according to FEC filings. The second PAC, Concerned American Voters, told POLITICO it had raised $1.88 million.

That’s far short of the amount raised by the super PAC backing former Florida governor Jeb Bush, which reported raising more than $100 million in the first half of the year, and short of those of other top-tier Republican presidential contenders, such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.